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Asking "Why?"

Let's check in with the Creative Whack Pack for some inspiration. Here goes. It's card #2: "Ask Why?" Let's see what it says.

Leonardo da Vinci: "I roamed the countryside searching for answers to
things I did not understand. Why shells exist on the tops of mountains
along with imprints of plants usually found in the sea. Why thunder
lasts longer than that which causes it. How circles of water form
around the spot which has been struck by a stone. And how a bird
suspends itself in the air. Questions like these engaged my thought
throughout my life."

Curiosity is wonderful! It jump starts the creative process. It
makes us ask questions. It encourages us to go beyond current right
answers. It makes us become explorers.

These are the things I'm curious about today.

• Why does the moon appear much larger when it's on the horizon than when it's overhead?

• Why the vast majority of people would prefer NOT to know exactly how long they will live?

• Why happiness is the absence of striving for happiness?

• Why giving your money away makes you feel rich?

• Why the best time to buy stocks when is most people are panicking?

• Why do adults (over 25) use Twitter? (Personally, I have enough on my hands with my own
innocuous thoughts. Also, I'm trying to strengthen my ability to
concentrate and not be distracted. I think anyone who is trying to get
something done would try to do the same. Why use yet another technology
that runs counter to that?)

• Why do women put up with men?

• Why real knowledge is knowing the extent of one's ignorance?

•Why can some people can laugh at themselves and why others are easily offended?

• Why is that sometimes we'll spend a lot of thought and time on a
post and receive one comment, and sometimes we'll take five minutes to
throw something out and end up generating a lot of conversation?

Comments

A few that occupied me today, so far:
1. Why do bird knees bend the opposite way
from homosapien knees?
2. Why does the fish rise three feet from
where I just cast?
3. Why do we take economists, particularly
those who develop "sure fire" formulae,
seriously?
4. Why can't we "get" the message from the
songs "Where Have All the Flowers Gone"
and "Universal Soldier"
5. Why does the school with the worst
record usually win the Cal-Stanford "Big
Game"?
6. How does Amy Ringholz draw so fast?

Ahh... the Carbon Offset Market. Is that where large urbanised countries can continue to pollute while they pay for developing countries to implement cheap and effective sustainability? What will they (have to) think of next.

fallow is the gap, or space lag we all need in order to be the super creators we are automatically. How is that? Universe does flow as a science "physics" with all the push, pull; wet ,dry; happy, sad; etc. etc.
Even when you rest there is a creative idea spiralling up. It is automatic! When you stop the show, you can move on...stasis. Die, but not die because you are eternity.....Infinity.
Clean out the dust of old worn out, not so useable anymore software. You are IT!

I often wonder how a school of fish can react so quickly as a unit to a potential threat. I have experimented with this many times while diving in the Gulf of Mexico. They seem to operate as one creature. Something serves as a high speed network to allow these creatures to react in this way. What is it? Do we also do this?

• My best guess would be that the curvature of the Atmosphere would "enlarge" the moon or at least out perception of it just as a lenses magnify anything else.

• If you know exactly when you are going to live you will worry about it and quite possibly go insane until you die.

• If you're striving for happiness it means you are not yet happy.

• Depends on you're definition of rich but the helping of others causes your body to release hormones or chemicals that would cause happiness or the "warm feeling" assuming that is the "rich you're talking about

• If most people are panicking they want to sell their stocks asap and soon as they're done with their little fright you can sell it all back to them and make a killing.

• Facebook is better

• Because women have 1 thing men can't live without.

• If you know the extent of your ignorance you know what you have yet to learn thus making you less ignorant

• They way a person was brought up largely affects how they react to banter or intended insults.

• Because unless your post is interesting people will largely ignore it and sometimes what you find interesting is not felt the same way by the rest of the community.

• Because "they" wanted to make life more difficult

• Because people as a whole are selfish greedy little bastards who always need more money =( sad but true